Equivalent Lands
Several large tracts of land exchanged between the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Equivalent Lands were several large tracts of land that the Province of Massachusetts Bay made available to settlers from the Connecticut Colony after April 1716. This was done as compensation for an equivalent area of territory that was under Connecticut's jurisdiction but had been inadvertently settled by citizens of Massachusetts.[1][2]:ā137ā The problem had arisen due to errors and imprecise surveys made earlier in the seventeenth century. The Equivalent Lands were never mapped.[3]